Our First Dominicn Peso

Wow Missy got paid. Yes Missy in now working with Caribbean Dream Vacation Rentals, a property management business. She has made our first peso. It only took two years but she is now employed and working long hours. You see our electric bill in Sept-Nov was around $700.00 to $900. this is because we found out our pool pump was left on and everything else that sucks electricity. Not being a regular owner of a swimming pool I took a while to realize the timer was broken. we did find this out in October but by then money was slipping through our fingers quite freely. Fortunately we have a better handle on this stuff but it is a daily chore. After two years of living we are finally feeling like we are getting better at the living conditions, yet Drew and Mariah are still learning their spanish much faster than Missy and me. Although now that Missy is in the field with the people she will be learning more easily than me, I guess I will have to get something too. I have been helping the same business get their act together with their accounting yet this is basically pro bono. I have also been asked to do more business consulting with some of our friends too. I guess they realize my fees are reasonable since I have not charged anyone YET. But congratulations to Missy for staying the course and making things happen. (Oh I think my curser jumped ) We stopped this crazy spending on electricity in December to around $500. with cut backs and Jan was even better to $450. wow labor is cheap but everything else is not. Gas got cut in half just like the states it went from $6.00 a gallon to $3.00 a gallon. When I was in the states in Dec and Jan it was great to see gas for $1.50 to even $1.79. Oh well that is the price to live on an tropical island. Hope all is well your your neck of the woods. doug